Anorexics ‘use violent methods to lose weight’

A WOMAN suffering from an Extreme Eating Disorder scratched her throat with a wire so it was too sore to eat and another drained her own blood in an effort to be slim.

Others admitted to eating tissues or cotton wool to take away hunger pangs, according to the November edition of Cosmopolitan magazine.

Deanne Jade, head of the National Centre for Eating Disorders in Britain, warned anorexic and bulimic women are using increasingly desperate and violent methods to try to lose weight.